Toʻabaita language

E157636

The Toʻabaita language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Toʻabaita people on Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
To'abaita language 1
Toʻabaita language canonical 1
Toʼabaita language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
ethnologueCode mlu
hasAlternateName Maluʻu
Maluʻu dialect
Maluʼu
Maluʻu
surface form: Malu’u

Toabaita
Toabaita
surface form: Toʻambaita

Toabaita
surface form: Toʼabaita
hasDomain vernacular communication
hasDomainOfUse community
home
local church activities
oral tradition
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable (approximate, as many local Solomon Islands languages face pressure from Pijin and English)
hasEthnicPopulation To'abaita people
surface form: Toʻabaita people
hasGlottocode toab1237
hasGlottologName Toabaita
hasISO639-3Code mlu
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
prepositional language
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for many Southeast Solomonic languages)
hasReferenceGrammar A Grammar of Toqabaqita (Lichtenberk)
surface form: “A Grammar of Toqabaqita” (closely related language, used comparatively)
hasStatus local language in Solomon Islands
minority language
isPartOf Malaita languages
isRelatedTo Kwaio language
Kwaio–Kwaio subgroup languages
Lau (Malaita)
surface form: Lau language (Malaita)

Touo language
surface form: Toqabaqita language
isSpokenNear Baeggu language
Baelelea language
Fataleka language
Lau (Malaita)
surface form: Lau language (Malaita)
languageFamily Austronesian languages
region Northern Malaita
spokenBy To'abaita people
surface form: Toʻabaita people
spokenIn Malaita Island NERFINISHED
Solomon Islands
subfamily Oceanic languages
subgroup Southeast Solomonic languages
usedAlongside English
Solomon Islands Pijin
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southeast Solomonic languages hasMember Toʻabaita language
Malaita hasLanguage Toʻabaita language
this entity surface form: To'abaita language
Malaita languages hasMember Toʻabaita language
this entity surface form: Toʼabaita language